The London Speaker

Results from the Area L9 contests...

From Cat Kipling, Area Director L9

Members from across Area L9 joined together on 20 September 2017 for laughs, frivolities and a higher-than-average number of speeches referring to matters "below the belt"... It was of course our annual Humorous Speech and Table Topics contests, with representatives from Berkeley Square Speakers, Excalibur Speakers, Experience French and Paddington Toastmasters vying for the coveted places at the Division L contests on 14 October 2017 (follow this link for tickets).

Our winners were...

Humorous Speech Contest:

1st - Ju Hyoung Yoo

2nd - David West

3rd - Marc Lottig

Table Topics Contest:

1st - Martin Zeman

2nd - Tony Truepenny-Phillipson

3rd - Freddie Daniells

Congratulations go out to all of our winners in contests that I can only imagine made tough decisions for our esteemed judges!

As well as celebrating the success of the winners of the contests, we were able to celebrate the success of our clubs at this early stage in the Toastmasters year. I had the honour of presenting each of the 4 clubs with a complete set of club officer pins, as awarded to them by the District Leadership Team for all 7 officers from all 4 clubs attending Club Officer Training! This is a huge achievement for the club leadership teams, and with there being a direct correlation between the training of officers and the success of clubs, Area L9 is one to watch...

Earlybird Speakers turn Night owls with Toastmasters Pro - once a month

 From Kassandra Gordon and Vanessa Gray-Hernandez, Early Bird Speakers

So far at toastmasters pro we've seen dragon den style pitches, elevator pitches, motivational talks, keynote speeches, learning seminar, a video blog, radio interview, audience interaction, guest participation, learning, laughing and all with a professional slant of what will actually be applicable in real world scenarios.

There has brilliant content and energetic delivery throughout the last two meetings. And as you'd expect from Earlybirds, it's developing month by month. 

Have you always wanted to find out more about Earlybird speakers but couldn't stomach the early start time? Pro is a great chance to bring join in for a fun and educational evening. 

Monday 2nd October 2017, 6.30-8.45pm

Venue of Toastmasters Pro sessions: Westminster Kingsway College, 211 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8RA

Sign up on Easyspeak

Guests sign up on Meetup / Eventbrite 

Or email Click here

Regular Earlybird meetings take place on Thursday 7:10am at Freemasons Hall in Holborn/Covent Garden. http://www.earlybirdspeakers.co.uk/

Tube Talk - Area 34 - Division C - District 91 -Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests - Results!

From Jane Liburdm, VPP, Tube Talk

Yesterday evening Wednesday 27 September 2017, Tube Talk held their club contest.

Contest Chair: Alex McKee
Chief Judge: Dick Dixon

Humorous Speech Participation:  Susan Hewitt, Ola Aralepo, Benoit Surroca, Jane Liburd and Mirtha Clark
Results: 1st - Ola Aralepo  2nd - Benoit Surroca

Table Topics Participation: Susan Hewitt, Benoit Surroca, Ola Aralepo and Jane Liburd

Results: 1st - Ola Aralepo 2nd - Susan Hewitt

Congratulations to Ola Aralepo who represents Tube Talk at the Area 34 Contest next Thursday 5 October 2017; hosted by Tube Talk.
Location: at 18.00 Templar House, 81-87 High Holborn, WC1V 6NU  Nearest tube station: Holborn

We'd love you to come along and cheer on our contestants. If you'd like to attend please email the club: tubetalk.toastmasters @gmail.com

You can also follow Tube Talk on:

Twitter: @TubeTalkTM
Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/TubeTalk/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/22327520/ 

Area K58 Humorous Speech Contest and Table Topics Contest - results!

From Ga Lok Chung, Area K58 Director

On Thursday 21st September, Area K58 held their contest, with 5 clubs competing: 1st London, Broadgate, City Speakers, Master Speakers and PMI Speakers.

Congratulations to Grant Sidwell from Master Speakers for winning Humorous Speech contest and Patrick Moran from Broadgate Speakers for winning Table Topics. They are pictured with Andy O’Sullivan (Chief Judge) and Christine Harris (Contest Chair).

Join us for the next round of the contests. The Division K contest will be on Saturday 21 October 2017. 

Register here:  https://attending.io/events/divkcontest

 

Our Humorous Speech Contest winner Grant (L) and Table Topics winner Patrick (R) with Chief Judge Andy, and Contest Chair Christine:

Come long to enjoy Tube Talks contests 27 Sept and the Area 34 Contests 5 Oct

From Jane Liburd, Tube Talk Toastmasters

Club Contests

Tube Talk is holding its club Humorous Speech Contest and its Table Topics contest next week.

Wednesday 27 September 2017 at 18.00
Templar House, 81-87 High Holborn, WC1V 6NU  Nearest tube station: Holborn

We'd love you to come along and cheer on our contestants. If you'd like to attend please email the club: tubetalk.toastmasters @gmail.com

Area 34 Contests

Also the Area Contests are  being organised by Florain Allwein and will be hosted by Tube Talk.

The Area 34 Humorous Speech Contest and Area 34 Table Topics Contest and table topics  will take place on Thursday , October 5, at 18:30
Templar House, 81-87 High Holborn, WC1V 6NU  Nearest tube station: Holborn.  Please email to tell if you are coming.

Join us for the Area 61 Contests on Monday 2 October

From Kavita Dulai, Area 61 Director

Please come along to our Area 61 Humorous Speech Contest and Table Topics Contest.  Support our fellow members as they strive to win the contests and become our Area Champions!

The evening is being held at the home of Harrovian Speakers: St Lawrence Church Hall, St Lawrence Close, HA8 6QS.

Join us on Monday 2 October, 7.15pm.

Come to the Area 56 Contests on Tues 3 October

From Eduardo Contreras

Please join us for a fun-filled-promising Toastmaster evening where we will see the members of the clubs of Area 56: Women In Banking and Finance Speakers-City, BlackRock Speaks, Deutsche Bank Toastmasters, Barings Speaking Club and Data Science Speakers competing in the Area Humorous Speech Contest and the Area Table Topics Contest.

We will be kindly hosted by Blackrock Speaks at their offices.

Date: 3 October 2017

Time: 17.45 registration for 18.00 start

We will have keynote speakers, networking time and of course a really entertaining evening

For more details and get your tickets please use the following link

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/area-56-humorous-speech-table-topics-contest-2017-tickets-37925757963